Quotes
Quotes about Talent
There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all its virtues are of no avail.
Genius does what it must, talent does what it can.
Conciseness is the sister of talent.
Everyone has a talent. What is rare is the cpourage to follow the talent to the dark places where it leads.
Grat talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off.
The luck of having talent is not enough; one must also have a talent for luck.
Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships.
The primary function of a theater is not to please itself, or even to please its audience. It is to serve talent.
Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times worse than nothing.
Each man has his own vocation; his talent is his call. There is one direction in which all space is open to him.
Happiness is the utilization of one's talents along lines of excellence.
It is a talent of the weak to persuade themselves that they suffer for something when they suffer from something; that they are showing the way when they are running away; that they see the light when they feel the heat; that they are chosen when they are shunned.
Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book.
